Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook | Official Trailer | Apple TV

Title: Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook

Release Date: November 06, 2020

Category: TV

Ratings: 15+

Studio: Twofour

Station: TV+

Description:

Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook is an eight-part Apple TV culinary docuseries following Nora Lum—better known as Awkwafina—as she learns to cook and tries to revive her family’s legendary Cantonese restaurant, Lum’s, in Flushing, New York. With no kitchen skills but a powerful family legacy, she travels across America to explore contemporary Asian American food and find a way to make that legacy her own.

Trailer description

• Hollywood made her famous. Her family’s restaurant made history. Now Awkwafina is trading movie sets for the kitchen—despite not knowing how to cook.

• Join Nora Lum, a.k.a. Awkwafina, on a personal cross-country culinary journey

• Discover the story of Lum’s, her family’s landmark Cantonese restaurant in Flushing, New York—among the first restaurants in what became the area’s thriving Chinatown

• Follow Awkwafina as she learns foundational kitchen skills and works to reimagine her great-grandfather’s restaurant legacy for a new generation

• Explore the creativity, history, and evolution of contemporary Asian American cuisine

• Train at the Culinary Institute of America and step into real restaurant kitchens

• Learn from acclaimed chefs and restaurateurs including Roy Choi and Martin Yan

• Travel to Texas for barbecue with Jimmy O. Yang

• Visit Hawai‘i to explore the tiki culture that inspired Awkwafina’s grandmother’s restaurant

• Take on the pressure of serving guests at a restaurant in Los Angeles’ Chinatown

• Culminates in an emotional opening night with Awkwafina’s grandmother among the diners

• Produced by Twofour, with Awkwafina serving as an executive producer

• Premieres globally on Apple TV November 6, 2026

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